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Archaeyopterix MajorusJay Connor
2/24/19 12:43pm
Rock Hill schools has announced a new initiative, their statement:
“In order to ‘make amends’ for this perceived lack of historical awareness and ‘other’ insensitivity, we will be rolling out a program for racial awareness. Late this month our Jewish students will be participating in ‘camp day’, wherein we’re going to have them dig long trenches outside, then they will participate in a group ‘shower’ in our bathrooms, where we will have them all undress to their undergarments and gather as a group in one of the school bathrooms while we run a fog machine to simulate gas, so that they might better understand the tragic history of their people.
Our Native American students will go on a ‘march for freedom’ when we take them, as a group, hiking in nature in a single-file line 20 miles across town next winter, then we’ve set up a traditional teepee village by the river, where they will find blankets laid out for them to keep warm during the coldest night of the year.
Finally, our Mexican, or ‘Hispanic American’, students will have ‘garden week’, when we’ve gone ahead and had a half ton of planting soil trucked in. They will be digging out garden beds in front of the school, replacing the soil with planting mix, and then doing all the planting and tending to that agriculture for us. Some of the students have received a special dispensation from the school to not work outside, so they will be replacing our maintenance staff and custodians inside, and doing ‘learning’ work like mopping, cleaning the toilets, and washing the windows.
We tried to arrange for our Chinese students to be able to take a field trip to the local railroad yard so they could have a chance to see how fun laying track could be, but safety concerns raised by the railway management have prevented this, in spite of our strongest objections and insistence. Can’t win them all, I guess some people just don’t know how important it is to show children what their identity means in America.
These directives have come down from our superintendent and, we believe, will help the students to all better understand their history, as well as their place in the world, giving them a career path and having something to aspire to when they grow up!”
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  Kullervo floats on airArchaeyopterix Majorus
  2/24/19 1:27pm
  “We thought it might also be interesting to arrange a field trip for our children of Taino descent to mine for gold, but we were subsequently informed that the Taino were genocided out of existence 400 years ago. Whoopsies!”
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  Vanessa FutrellArchaeyopterix Majorus
  2/24/19 1:54pm
  Yes! A thousand times yes!
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Vanessa FutrellJay Connor
2/24/19 1:52pm
I’ve raised two children and have signed more permission slips than I can count. I would have pulled a huge “Whoa Nelly” as soon as I read the words “trip will include cotton picking.
Contrary to what Wale Cathcart would like people to believe, “One of the problems when it comes to African-American people is that they fail to understand history”. The problem is that the majority of American schools hire teachers who twist and/or know nothing about history.
IMO, Cathcart is one self-loathing negro. I would like to give him a “hands-on” experience for subjecting these students to this emotional abuse.
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  weapon-a the first try suffers no trollsVanessa Futrell
  2/24/19 2:17pm
  “IMO, Cathcart is one self-loathing negro. I would like to give him a “hands-on” experience for subjecting these students to this emotional abuse.”
  WORD.
  I read the headline thinking some ignorant white person once again thought it was the *black kids* who needed to be taught about oppression.
  To hear it was an old black man apparently upset that 10 year old black kids “don’t know how good they got it”...
  I’m in my fourties and in moments of extreme exasperation I’ve threatened to just beat the problem kid for every failing, instead of constantly trying to correct behavior by explaining and taking things away as I do. “That’s what my dad did to me”, I (partly) lie.
  Still, I can’t imagine even 40+ more years of life making me so cantankerousness that I’d make kids pick cotton while singing songs mocking themselves.
  WTF?
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  MisterPigginsVanessa Futrell
  2/25/19 12:44am
  He thought he was the first one to come up with this too. Stupid.
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ofaycanyouseemeJay Connor
2/24/19 12:10pm
Not even close to the first time this shit has happened.
Motherfuckers.
https://nypost.com/2017/02/01/school-cancels-black-history-cotton-picking-field-trip/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PToqVW4n86U
https://uanews.arizona.edu/calendar/field-trip-lives-black-cotton-pickers-arizona
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/connecticut-students-re-enact-slavery-school-trip-article-1.1463361
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  FlamingFeministaofaycanyouseeme
  2/24/19 3:20pm
  History, and the dark evil of slavery, needs to be taught - Don’t get me wrong! Just as I don’t want Black children subjected to humiliation, I also don’t wanna them hearing about happy, singing slaves dancing around their shacks either! But CONTEXT, framing and care needs to be shown, dammit! How is it that museums can get it right but EDUCATORS can’t?!?!
  Detroit’s preeminent Wright African-American Museum was designed to evoke all kinds of feelings from the deep abject misery of slave ships through segregation to the hopeful aspirations and success of every generation. At the Holocaust Museum, seeing the display of murdered children’s shoes while filtered light like those in the trains shone down on me as I listened to actual survivor narration hit me VISCERALLY! Believe me, through sound and thoughtful narration, light and pictures and sculpture and just Art, I was emotionally-drained after each - and I LEARNED and REMEMBER!
  Better than books, I also learned about how little white people value Black children’s education when my stepfather told us tales of 1960's (!) white landowners STILL closing down Black schools and threatening even non-sharecropping parents that their kids better help bring in the crops! His showing us scars from bleeding fingertips and tales of aching knees and backs on little kids is not something to be forgotten.
  It’s clear, we have to teach our OWN kids!
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  BiscuitFlamingFeminista
  2/24/19 10:26pm
  History, and the dark evil of slavery, needs to be taught - Don’t get me wrong!
  But CONTEXT, framing and care needs to be shown, dammit!
  This.
  And obviously the teacher behind this got it all wrong - has probably been doing it for years - and doesn’t see it.
  Notice the kids told their parents they thought it was FUNNY and a GAME.
  So this teacher’s fucking ‘slavery experience’ came off like fun and games for the kids. FUN. AND. GAMES.
  Mission failure on his part - totally erasing context for these kids. Yet he’s out there pointing fingers at other AAs for not understanding.
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FlamingFeministaJay Connor
2/24/19 2:44pm
What word surpasses livid?! Furious, murderous?! I need one all-encompassing word that conveys outrage, fury, and fierce, passionate heartbreak. One word that can showcase how I feel reading how people abuse Black children and delight at getting away with most egregiously humiliating them. I can’t think of one word or phrase but this mother needs to know that she is not alone in her loss for words. I know she feels alone because all the other parents didn’t band together and march on that school the very night it happened!
But I also need to know why these parents didn’t reject out of hand, a field trip about the Great Depression? Black people already write the book on poverty! But a trip that even mentions cotton-picking demands a Hell No, call to the principal and rally before the next school board meeting!
Lastly, these parents should also BURN WITH SHAME that they, personally, in the Carolinas (!), have failed to teach their kids enough about slavery, that 10 year olds didn’t recognize cotton-picking and singing about being obedient IMMEDIATELY and shut it down by using their ubiquitous cell phones to call home! If those kids saw a scene like that on tv, they’d turn the channel quickly calling it a depressing slave movie, WTF, why would they participate in person?!
I tell you now, THIS shit is why the Jews wisely say, “Never again” and send their kids to weekend school to learn about the Holocaust! So they don’t ‘accidentally’ get manipulated into humiliating themselves, their families and their culture!
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  StorminMike2000FlamingFeminista
  2/24/19 9:59pm
  Apoplectic
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Old white guyJay Connor
2/25/19 12:42am
Not only is this whole field trip a big “whaaaa?”, it didn’t even do what they claimed they were trying to do.
They say it was to teach the kids about the hard work during the depression, or something like that. But they DID NOT TEACH that. As the one child stated, the teachers turned it into a game. “Who can pick the most!”.
Then they added in the slave songs, because, you know, during the depression, everyone was singing the slave songs! But, again, where was the teaching about the slave songs? Where was the discussion of the meanings of the songs, how they were used for communications as well as to just get through yet another hard day of work that the white people didn’t want to do (hmmm, its still the work white people don’t want to do, hence why they keep hiring immigrants to do it).
But it wasn’t a complete lack of teaching. It may have taught one or two educators what some people might consider racist!
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Nunna Yorz (Greys get dismissed with prejudice)Jay Connor
2/25/19 11:12am
“We need innovation in the education system,” he told Fox 46. “Not just lecturing children in a classroom telling them something. There’s nothing better than hands on.”
What are they supposed to be learning by making the oppression of their ancestors into a game? What exactly did our ancestors learn from a couple of centuries of free, forced labor, filled with calloused hands, and cuts from cotton thorns? Do you give the kids smallpox when you teach them about Native American history?
“One of the problems when it comes to African-American people is that they fail to understand history in its proper context, and, because of that, we are at a disadvantage today.”
First of all, way to stereotype all African Americans as ignorant. Second, even though he said it in a stupid, racist way, he’s right that we should learn from history. However he shows his own ignorance when he says the reason why we’re at a disadvantage today is because we don’t know about slavery because he didn’t even mention the very real systemic racism that helps to keep black people at a disadvantage to this day.
This dude is a piece of work and he’s proof that wisdom doesn’t automatically come with age. I can tell that he’s mentally blind, but is he physically blind too? If so then we might have just found the guy Chappelle based Clayton Bigsby on. The only way to top this level of coonery would be a white house meeting between Trump, Kanye, Cosby and Steve Harvey.
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youralizardharryJay Connor
2/25/19 7:50am
Teacher here. The path from “idea” to what happens is long. I can imagine, from the Rock Hill’s statement, what they thought they’d do.
And then someone said, not getting the message it was Great Depression trip (because cotton), “Maybe we should include songs, like people used to sing in the fields”. Then everyone worried about what would happen if Dick got bored or Jane got their dress dirty, so they made it “fun” with a competition.
Kids can’t learn the truth, either. Too depressing. One school district in Florida took The Autobiography of Anne Frank out of the curriculum because it was “a real downer”. If James got a dry hands from the work or Susan got sweaty in the field the parents would scream, so the mere taste of actual work never happened.
In short, many cooks. No one stopped, reread the statement and thought, “How does X and Y support this?”. We want innovative education but no one wants to go where actual learning happens—with emotion. Schools instead focus on a simplified Rosa Parks’ story (“tired feet”) because the lynchings and dogs and firehoses are sad (i.e., horrible) and the issues of the Civil Rights movement were both simple (equality) and complex and end with a lot of violence. Plus, it implicates the adults (especially white).
I hope schools keep trying to move beyond the watered down textbook/video. If they’d involve more people, beyond a mere permission slip, and allow for some mistakes kids might learn something before they’re handed the controls.
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HumboldtGenesisJay Connor
2/25/19 11:00am
“One of the problems when it comes to African-American people is that they fail to understand history in its proper context, and, because of that, we are at a disadvantage today.”
Fuck this decrepit motherfucker, seriously.
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decgeekJay Connor
2/24/19 7:04pm
Seriously? Again!!!
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BlackMage2030Jay Connor
2/25/19 8:53am
It’s the 81-year-old instructor that needs to get his butt swiped on this. “Proper context” isn’t making it a fun game for the kids to pick the most. “Proper context” was explaining the process as they picked, talking about the punishing conditions, the expectation of hours worked baking in the sun, the ability to feed your family tied to how much you picked, the punishments dealt out for bad jobs (no actual punishments, just details of that), the fact that kids younger than them were expected to pick competently... a “you did this for a minute, imagine a lifetime of this”. Then an explanation of sharecropping that came after the war. Making it cute and fun and a happy competition isn’t it.
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